Same old, same old

My husband has taken over the cooking since he has retired, I felt that I had my "turn" having cooked for almost 40 years! It works well, we decide what we eat together, draw up a meal plan and shopping list and either one of us goes shopping, he is a better shopper than me because he is not distracted by offers. The only trouble is he will not stick to a recipe and always wants to "improve" it, unfortunately it doesn't always work!

My husband has taken over the cooking too. At first I minded because it was 'my' area but he enjoys it so, why not.
My problem is that I could live on air these days so I've had to educate him on quantities and he cooks himself vast amounts of pasta and potatoes, which I avoid, along with adventurous sauces.
Rose Eliot taught me how to cook tasty and nutritious food and we're still vegetarian. There are various new ingredients that have perked life up though - coconut milk, Mexican spices, sweet potatoes, preserved lemons, haloumi, tortillas, a vast range of chutneys and sauces. However, something like tofu, green beans and broccoli stir fried with Chinese Five Spice Powder, garlic, onions and good soy sauce is light and tasty and an old favourite.

I had convinced myself that I was diabetic ( tests proved otherwise!) and found some lovely recipes on the Diabeties UK website which got me back into cooking and as a bonus, I have lost weight as well.

The recipes ( hundreds of them) are all nutritionally coded for carbs, fat, sugars, calories etc so it is easy to eat according to your health needs. I now make a couple of the recipes each week, enough for two meals when fresh and some left over for the freezer. They use every day ingredients too, I have not had to buy anything special apart from some new spices, sweet potatoes and lentils!

Anyone fed up of cooking the same few things should go and have a look.

I can't even read recipes without something shutting down in my brain.

I'm with BradfordLass - I'll happily help too!

I don't even know what noodles are. Never have got to the bottom of that one.

Recently diagnosed diabetic type 2 and on a campaign to lose weight. Have joined Slimming World and am really enjoying trying out some new recipes - there are tons on the internet. Some have been fairly yuk and some delicious but it's just fun to try some new things, even the yuk ones! I've just finished preparing a pork recipe for the slow cooker - fingers crossed it's nice.
I have been thinking about trying some of the recipe boxes that you get delivered (apparently Gousto are the best?) - any thoughts?

Wish my husband could cook like some of the others. He attempted to cook bacon and I had to throw all the charcoal away!!!

I loathe cooking but when I joined Slimming World they encourage you to cook from scratch. I purchased their Take 5 book (any recipe only 5 ingredients) and I havn't looked back since. I can cope with 5 ingredients, still don't like cooking, never will, but this seems to work for me.

leyla to save money and reverse your diabetes just don't eat to many carbs. Limit or ignore, bread, potatoes, rice etc. It works extremely well Loads of recipes on the internet. Just google low carb recipes

Thanks BB for your advice. It’s hard - I love carbs, but needs must! I’m enjoying exploring some of the more complex grains but I miss bread!! Everything I love is full of carbs.

Well I was looking for simple ideas for ways to cook salmon and I came up with this. It was so delicious, I'm using the same idea tonight with some chicken:

Spread a salmon steak thickly with pesto sauce. Cover with breadcrumbs, then sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese. Cook in the oven at 200deg for around 20 minutes. We had it with some vegetable rice, which seemed a perfect accompaniment.

I have had enough, a lifetime of cooking. I was a fabulous cook, started at age 9 and could cook a whole meal for 9 people at age 11. Now 60 years later, widowed and living on my own, I really cannot be bothered, I am cooked out and I have other things to do.

Always but always, there is that left over something in the fridge to use up. I will batch cook very good soups, to freeze and have with my hm bread. Salads are easy, with a few nuts or fish baked in foil. Double amount of lightly boiled potatoes, next day potato salad or fried potatoes. Puds are usually berries, yoghurt with a granola sprinkle. I will be making some gorgeous vanilla ice cream, when I get my arris is gear. Breakfast has to be quick, weetabix with berries and hm hemp milk. I am not a vegan btw.

I do most of my veg in one pan, steamer over pan of water. If I do pasta, I lift the steamer and put the pasta in the water under the steamer. Get my drift, I am not about to make work for myself and tbh I enjoy what I eat.

Vegetable curry. Fajitas. Tacos. Quesadillas. Pasta bake. Pasta and pesto. Falafel in pitta with hummus and salad, chicken kebabs, kofte kebabs, Spaghetti with meatballs and tomato sauce. Sausage casserole done in slow cooker, chilli con carne, also in slow cooker. We like spicey good !

I've always enjoyed cooking, especially at weekends, or when we invite friends over. But, since the kids have flown the nest, and now it's just the two of us to cook for, I'd much rather cook simple, but tasty things, during the week. I do like to cook from scratch but I can't see the point in going to a lot of trouble, with lots of ingredients, just for two of us! I get a lot of my recipes from Pinterest, there are so many that we never get bored.
Some of my favourites are:
Teriyaki Salmon with Sesame Pak Choi, which we have with wild rice.
Mediterranean Chicken Bake (chicken thighs/chorizo/veg).
Brazilian Fish Stew.
One-Pot Chicken drumsticks with lentils.
One-Pot Spanish chicken & potatoes.
Green Massala Butternut Squash Curry.
Mushroom & Black Bean Chili
They're all on Pinterest, and thousands more ... no need to get bored, and no need for ridiculously long ingredient lists, or all day in the kitchen!

I admit to not reading all of this thread but my 'fave' cookbook at the moment is The Quick Roasting Tin: 30 minute one dish dinners. Can't fault it.

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Two of us here
Can’t believe I used to cook all our meals from scratch, plus a pudding.as DH didn't like ready meals. We have 4 children all adults now and left home. We now just stick to ‘something easy’
I do cook a roast every now and then but it seems a lot of fuss for just the two of us. I think I'm just boring to be honest.

BlueBelle

I ve often eaten Basa in the past as it’s cheaper and I never found it tasted any different to cod I rarely eat fish or meat now but my most unacceptable smell or taste is salmon I think it is vile

I’m not keen on salmon either, unless it’s smoked.
Trout, or salmon trout, OTOH….